A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao­Tzu

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- Alan J. Perlis (Epigrams in programming)

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume that it is true and try to find out what it could be true of. -- George Miller

Dont give users the opportunity to lock themselves. -- unknown

While I’ve always appreciated beautiful code, I share Jonathan’s concern about studying it too much. I think studying beauty in music and painting has led us to modern classical music and painting that the majority of us just don’t get. Beauty can be seen when it emerges, but isn’t something to strive for in isolation of a larger context. In the software world, the larger context would be the utility of the software to the end user. -- [A comment on a blog]

An expert is, according to my working definition "someone who doesn't need to look up answers to easy questions". -- Eric Lippert.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~Jim Rohn

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt